It isn’t. It’s a tactical problem. Tactics are micro goals to achieve alignment towards macro goals, for example processes to move things in order to achieve a stand operating procedure at lower cost.
The difference between tactics and strategy isn’t about size of effort or timeframe. For example historically the German military has trained on superiority of movement as a strategy to dominate the battlefield. That concept is strategic during training but tactical during execution. It’s all about alignment towards goals. To simplify that even further the US has adopted the Mission Command philosophy whereby the goal is to achieve a commander’s intent instead of a factual result.
marklittlewood · 4h ago
Agree on the difference between strategy and tactics but I'm not clear why that would mean this is a tactical issue.
I think the big takeaway from the talk for me is that if team and departmental tactics don't align with the strategy, it's a strategy problem because the strategy isn't clearly defined or reinforced by the individual actions.
It isn’t. It’s a tactical problem. Tactics are micro goals to achieve alignment towards macro goals, for example processes to move things in order to achieve a stand operating procedure at lower cost.
The difference between tactics and strategy isn’t about size of effort or timeframe. For example historically the German military has trained on superiority of movement as a strategy to dominate the battlefield. That concept is strategic during training but tactical during execution. It’s all about alignment towards goals. To simplify that even further the US has adopted the Mission Command philosophy whereby the goal is to achieve a commander’s intent instead of a factual result.
I think the big takeaway from the talk for me is that if team and departmental tactics don't align with the strategy, it's a strategy problem because the strategy isn't clearly defined or reinforced by the individual actions.